Born in Moscow. In 1988, having completed his studies
at the Moscow College of Choreography (Alexander Prokofiev’s class), he joined
the Bolshoi Ballet Company. In 1992, he gradated from the performers faculty
of the Institute of Choreography (today College and Institute have been
amalgamated into the Moscow Academy of Choreography). At the present time,
his teacher-repetiteur is Mikhail Lavrovsky.Main Repertory

2007Soloist (Misericordes to
music by Arvo Part. Christopher Wheeldon
creation)Conrad (Le Corsaire.
Production and new choreography by Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri Burlaka after
Marius Petipa)

2008The Marquis Costa de
Beauregard (Boris Asfiev's The Flames of Paris. Production and new
choreography by Alexei Ratmansky after Vasily Vainonen)

Tours

Yuri Klevtsov has numerous
foreign contracts. From 1995-96, he was guest soloist with
Argentine’s Teatro Colon Ballet Company where he danced lead roles in the
classical and modern repertory and participated in the Company’s premiere
production of La Fille mal gardee (choreography by Frederick Ashton).
In 2000, he danced the part of Ferkhad at the premiere of Legend of
Love at the State Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Istanbul.He has
participated several times in the international Stars of the 21st
Century project, organized by the Canadian impresarios Nadia Veselova-Tencer
and Solomon Tencer (these gala-concerts of the world’s ballet stars have taken
place in Toronto, Paris, Cannes, New York, Tokyo).

Since November 2008 he
has become Assistant Ballet Director in Rostov State Opera and Ballet
Theatre.

Awards

In 1988,
he won the 1st prize at the All-Union Competition of Ballet Dancers,
in Moscow and the 2nd prize at the International Competition of
Ballet Dancers, in Varna.In 1995, he was awarded the title of Merited
Artist of the Russian Federation.In 2001, he was awarded the order of
Friendship. In 2008, he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the
Russian Federation.